Add Milestones to the Project

About this lesson

You add milestones to a project so you can track the completion of certain groups of tasks. Milestones are not required in a project but you will likely find them helpful when building reports or sharing the project with others.

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Quick reference

Add Milestones to the Project

You add milestones to a project so you can track the completion of certain groups of tasks. Milestones are not required in a project but you will likely find them helpful when building reports or sharing the project with others.

Further Discussion

Very often, Project Managers create tasks to track smaller items, so they create a milestone that represents the delivery of that item (or a deliverable). For example, you might create a milestone representing a deliverable called Architectural design file delivered. Later in the project, you might create a milestone that represents the completion of all the work by the architects, like Architecture design complete.

Steps

To create a milestone in your project, follow these steps:

Insert a new row and type key milestone complete, renaming the words key milestone with the actual name of your milestone, like move in complete.

In the duration field, type 0d (zero days).

Note: As a general rule, adding the word complete to the end of the milestone is important.